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Lancre
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| Lancre | |
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| Established | {{{established}}} |
| Motto | |
| Neighbours | The Chalk, Skund (usually) |
| Geographical Features | The Ramtops, the Lancre River, The Place Where The Sun Does Not Shine |
| Capital | Lancre Town |
| Population | for tax reasons, 2, but somewhere near 600 |
| Size | |
| Type of government | Monarchy, current ruler: King Verence II and Queen Magrat Garlick |
| Notable Citizens | {{{notablecitizens}}} |
| Imports | Knick-Knacks for Mrs Ogg |
| Exports | Lancre Blue, tough wool, Witches and Wizards |
| National Anthem | |
| Books | The Witches Series centres on Lancre. These include; Wyrd sisters, witches abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade and Carpe Jugulum |
A small kingdom in the Ramtops, Lancre is homeland to many witches and wizards. Wizards tend to move over to Unseen University (including Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully and former Archchancellor Galder Weatherwax), but famous Lancre witches including Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Magrat Garlick (now retired, being queen and all...) and Agnes Nitt stick around. The King and husband to Magrat is Verence II.
Major appearances in most or all of the Witches Series, and sometimes mentioned in other books as place as the place-nobody-has-heard-of from which people come to big cities and achieve great things. Politically, Lancre is the largest kingdom on the Ramtops (consisting of a village AND a castle), the representative country that people of other regions think of when they think of the Ramtops. It actually contains a fair amount of land, the problem being that this land is packed so close together that it is almost vertical (the only piece of flat land the people of Lancre have is in a museum). King Verence II is very forward-looking, and tries to build a democracy with diplomatic relations.
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The name comes from Pierre de Lancre, a 16th/17th century witchhunter.
Due to the hardnosed nature, stoicism and general down-to-earthness of both the country and its people, it is also reasonable to assume that there is a large dollop of Lancashire in there too...
